Hi, I’ve been attempting to get a user by external ID using the docs: https://docs.discourse.org/#tag/Users/paths/~1u~1by-external~1{external_id}.json/get It returns a “404 not found” with any user I try. Using the same URI and API key and username, I can get categories and groups . Any suggest…

@pfaffman I do not understand your response, it does not contain an answer. That topic shows how to find out about endpoints that are not documented. This one is, and it is one of the very few API calls that cannot be reverse engineered like that, since this specific API endpoint is never called by …

[image] RGJ: This one is, and it is one of the very few API calls that cannot be reverse engineered like that Oops. Most often the answer to "the API documentation is broken, how do I . . . " is what I linked to. Looking more carefully it’s painfully apparent that something involving external…

Theory #1: Most of the time (not always) the external ID is a database ID and thus a numeric value. Are you sure your external ID is mark89 ? Does SingleSignOnRecord.find_by(external_id: 'mark89') return a database record? Theory #2: Your staging site does not have SSO enabled, which usually goes…

Ah, alas, that doesn’t work either. I have tried this same request using the Wordpress Discourse plugin and it doesn’t work with that either, though request to get a user by email does. Thinking that it might be a problem with our sandbox version of Discourse (which is what I’ve been testing with …

[image] mpemburn: Ah, alas, that doesn’t work either. Did you check my two theories that I wrote before I saw that you were sending the auth headers in the wrong way? Theory #1: Most of the time (not always) the external ID is a database ID and thus a numeric value. Are you sure your extern…

Richard, Okay, so the sandbox doesn’t have SSO set up but production does. I checked my user record on production and yes, the external ID is set, and it is, in fact, a numeric ID. When I tested with the production credentials and URI and the real external ID, it returns the same 404 error. Oh, …

[image] mpemburn: Where is this facility? cd /var/discourse ./launcher enter app rails c SingleSignOnRecord.find_by(external_id: ‘mark89’)

Unable to GET user by External ID

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) June 16, 2020, 2:21pm 2

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